Xerox

Photography by Ian Douglas

Xerox

Length: 15 minutes; Number of Dancers: 6

Xerox was created to research viewer perceptions of the moving body as well as to explore how to externalize the internal experiences of the performers. The creative process was driven by ideas of inscription, tension, the elusive search for perfection, and the perceptive differences between two and three-dimensional imagery. The movement vocabulary, generated through the deconstruction of classical form, playfully disrupts austere technical movement with distorted shapes and bodily alignment and occasional interruptions of task-like movement.

To further alter viewer perceptions of the movement, the piece augments the technical choreography by bringing in paper as an alternate material. Sheets of paper, initially set up geometrically within the performance space, are gradually manipulated and dismantled by the movements of the dancers. Moreover, live drawing of the body in motion is included within the piece to begin to make visible the cognitive processes involved with observing dance. The resulting work, Xerox, is an abstract piece that seeks to resolve order and chaos within a fluctuating choreographic environment while simultaneously stimulating audiences to reflect on the sensory experiences involved with viewing and performing dance.

Performance History

Access Theater | New York, NY | September 2017

Actors Fund Arts Center | Brooklyn, NY | July 2017

Green Space | Queens, NY | May 2017

Sarah Lawrence College | Bronxville, NY | April 2017

Bard College | Annandale-On-Hudson, NY | April 2017